Clothes-line.



D. J. LAHAY.

CLOTHES LINE.

APPLIOATiQN FILED MAY 27, 1912.

1,055,055. Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

WITNESSES mmvrofi Dell James Lahay DELL JAMES LAHAY, OF CARNEY, MICHIGAN.

CLOTHES-LINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4,1913.

. Application filed May 27, 1912. Serial No. 699,924.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DELL JAMES LAHAY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Carney, in the county of Menominee and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Line, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: To provide a line having means incorporated in.

the construction for holding articles of laundry for drying; to provide the means for holding said articles at suitably close intervals; to minimize the weight of construction of the line; and to minimizethe cost of construction of the same.

-Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views, and in which Figure l is a perspective View of a fragment of a clothes line constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; and Fig.2 is a side view of a section of a clothes line, showing inconjunction therewith an article of laundry as suspended thereby.

A clothes line, when constructed in accordance with the present invent-ion, comprises a plurality of short link strain-receiving bars 7. The strain-receiving bars 7 are constructed from light galvanized or suitable weather-protected wire, which is twisted and returned upon itself to form eyelets 8 and 9. 'The eyelets 8 and 9 are interwoven to form loose joints between the bars 7, thus giving to the line a structural appearance somewhat resembling the ordinary surveyors-chain.

p The wire, after being shaped to form the eyelets 8 and 9, is returned-toward the center of the bars 7, and there bent to provide two contracted grip sections 10, said sections being wrapped one upon the other to form a twisted connection 11 at the bottom. The sections 10, as shown in the drawings,

are slightly gapped at the upper end to form an entrance opening for the insertion therebetween of a corner or gathered section of laundered articles, such as 12.

The weight of the grip section 10 operates to rotate each link so that the grip section hangs below the bar 7. This disposition of the grip sections is further insured whenever an article to be dried is held therein.

' The operation of hanging an article, such as 12, upon the line, when constructed in accordance with the above description and as seen in the accompanying drawingsyis as follows: Dispensing with the ordinary clothes-pins, "the laundress gathers a small section of the article to be dried, and lift ing it above the grip sections 10, draws it downward between the straight sides there of, the spring of the wire permitting the distortion of the grip sections and the sub-' sequent grasp thereof upon the material. One end of the article being thus secured, the laundress passes to the opposite end, or to a convenient intermediate portion, which is threaded in the same manner, and secured in the sante convenient grip section 10 of said line.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A clothes line having a plurality of links,

each link consist-ing of a .wire looped about DELL JAMES LAHAY.

Witnesses J. E. SAGER, CLIFFORD LAHAY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

/ Washington, D. G. 

